McMahon S, Dodd B
University of Queensland, Australia.
Eur J Disord Commun. 1997;32(3):328-45. doi: 10.3109/13682829709017899.
Few studies have focused on the language acquisition of higher multiple birth sets. In this study, the communication skills of 51 triplet children are described. The measures used were: mean length of utterance; type-token ratio; conversational acts; phoneme repertoire; and number of different types of phonological processes used. The data gained were used to compare the communication skills of triplets with those of twins, singletons and normative data available in the literature. Siblings within triplet sets were also compared using language samples obtained from adult-child interactions and when the three children were playing together. The results indicated that the triplets' early communication skills were different from those of both singletons and twins. The triplets' difficulties included delayed syntactic development, limited use of different language functions and delayed phonological development. In contrast, twins' communication profile is characterised by disordered phonological development.
很少有研究关注多胞胎中多子女组合的语言习得情况。在本研究中，描述了51名三胞胎儿童的沟通技巧。所使用的测量方法包括：话语平均长度；形符-类符比；会话行为；音位库；以及所使用的不同类型语音过程的数量。所获得的数据用于将三胞胎的沟通技巧与双胞胎、单胞胎以及文献中可得的常模数据进行比较。还使用从成人与儿童互动以及三个孩子一起玩耍时获得的语言样本，对三胞胎组合中的兄弟姐妹进行了比较。结果表明，三胞胎的早期沟通技巧与单胞胎和双胞胎均有所不同。三胞胎面临的困难包括句法发展延迟、不同语言功能的使用受限以及语音发展延迟。相比之下，双胞胎的沟通特征是语音发展紊乱。
